Liverpool, University Library (GB)
: SPEC Inc.Tate.02
ISTC No.ii00167300
AuthorInstitoris, Henricus and Jacobus Sprenger
TitleMalleus maleficarum
Imprint[Speyer : Peter Drach, about 1495]
Format4°
Languagelat
SubjectLaw-canon
Keywordsinquisition; theology-practical; female; demonology
Periodcontemporary
Description of Copy
Copy Id02141197
Holding InstitutionLiverpool, University Library (GB)
ShelfmarkSPEC Inc.Tate.02
NoteCreated by Niamh Delaneu
Size of leaves191 × 138 mm
Copy FeaturesComplete
Bound with manuscript
Copy Features - NoteBound in at end, as flyleaves, (possibly pastedowns from the original binding) are two portions of leaves of a 15th century(?) Latin manuscript - a treatise on physics or medicine(?).
Support material (book)Paper
Provenance
1495 -
1750
Time period1495 - 1750
Provenance nameAnonymous [Person; Annotator] (Unknown, Unknown, Unknown)
Provenance TypeManuscript Notes
Date of evidenceDates approximate
Manuscript notesDrawing of 2 pointing hands (manicules) on leaf o8 verso.
Ms. notes (frequency)Occasional
Location in BookParts only
Reading marks (underlining and pointing hands)Yes
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand
Provenance
1800 -
1895
Time period1800 - 1895
Provenance TypeBinding
Seller's mark/note
NoteCatalogue entry for this book pasted in - number 525, price 50-. With bookseller's marks on pastedowns, including a note in pencil in a 19th century hand: "The rare First Edition of this famous + oft printed book -- W.B.".
Date of evidenceDates approximate
Binding note19th century blind-tooled pastiche leather binding. Red leather spine label with titiling in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Bookblock edges coloured red.
Binding date19th cent.
Binding typeBoards
Board materialPaper
Cover materialLeather
FurnitureNo
Binding statusRebound
Binding Dimensions197 × 147 × 27 mm
TitlingTooled
ToolingBlind and gold
EdgesColoured
Writing on edgesNone
GaufferedNo
Provenance
1895 -
PlaceLiverpool (Geonames ID: 2644210)
Areae-uk-en
Time period1895 -
Provenance TypeExlibris
NoteUniversity College, Liverpool Library bookplate: "Presented by Henry Tate, Esq." Tate gave a number of donations to the University of Liverpool, including the funds used to buy incunabula.
Date of evidenceDates approximate
Method of acquisitionunknown
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand
Other Information
CompletenessThe enumeration of provenance evidence is considered complete
Last Edit2021-04-22 10:09:28